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QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 07:06 AM) Does anyone else find it retarded to declare a war on things like cancer and drugs? WTF does that even mean? Or for that matter, on terrorism? (not, say, on Al Qaeda). That's the problem. We have only 1 metaphor available to us in this culture for something we want to accomplish; war. We like war, we like winning war, so we declare war on things.

He'll probably wind up around 35 barring a real hot streak. And it's well worth the $.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Aug 27, 2006 -> 01:39 PM) Geez, it takes about 5 minutes for a White Sox loser thread to get to about 10 pages. Where the hell is everybody? This was the biggest win of the season. We could not get swept by these clowns again. Gutsy performance by Mark Buehrle today. And who was that guy out there for the Sox today? The white dude who wears #22? I didn't recognize him at all. Sorry, had to drive fiance in to work. Welcome back Mark. We've missed you. Don't ever leave again.

QUOTE(JoeBatterz @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 08:21 PM) The time is right. I'm going to assume that this post and thread were created in March, 2006, and somehow were lost in internet-land until tonight.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 08:16 PM) Even in a loss I try to look for a positive and the positive is the White Sox came back and never gave up. It doesn't make anyone feel better, as a matter of fact it feels like we just got eliminated in the playoffs and there is no tomorrow. But if the White Sox play with the intensity they played with tonight, they're going to win tomorrow. When you talk about playing with intensity, 2 plays immediately come to my mind. 1. Luis Castillo's ground ball to Iguchi off of Jenks in the 9th. Iguchi charges, but not hard/fast enough, and Castillo is close enough to be called safe. 2. Scott Podsednik grounds to Castillo in the bottom of the 9th. Castillo dives, gets the ball, and throws Podsednik out by 3 steps. I looked at those 2 plays and thought that hands down, 1 team wanted this game more than the other. BMac, JD, yeah there were a couple of guys with some intensity. But I didn't see it in the rest of them.

1 second...does anyone realize that the argument here, in the "Ozzie Guillen battleground thread", is that you can't put 100% of the blame on Ozzie for the loss? Of course it's not 100% his fault. But way more of it was his fault than should have been.

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 08:12 PM) The game was not lost by Ozzie. It was lost by Cintron and AJ who couldn't get more than one run home with the bases loaded and only one out. It was lost by Uribe, making an error on a ball he normally sucks up. It was lost by Iguchi, grounding in to a double play for the final two outs of the game, leaving the best hitter in the AL on deck. It was not lost by Ozzie. Yes, if he did things a bit differently, then maybe the Sox would have won, but it's far from being his fault when placing the blame for this game on someone. The only 2 people I can think of who did not have a hand in losing tonight's game are Brandon McCarthy and Jermaine Dye. It's just a matter of proportion. Hell, I thought Jenks should have been left in for the 11th.

We beat Joe Nathan for the first time in 3 years, and somehow, it's still not good enough.

This is the worst loss for the White Sox since the game in 2003 that Loaiza started against the Twins when he had a cold.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 08:04 PM) If Pods is running, he better be 100 pct certain he'll make it. 100% is not good enough. 135% at least.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 08:03 PM) Was Gload playing up on that Punto liner with 2 outs? I thought that is what Farmer said. Yup. And I don't think any of us have any idea why.

I will shoot Podsednik if he turns into an out. I will literally kill him if he does anything that stops Dye from coming up.

Finally, a bunt hit. WOW. I remember those.

QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:57 PM) Remember Uribe's error? Yeah.... Remember the 2 balls that went over Mack's head in Center Field when he started his 4th game at that position in the last 6?

If anyone gets on, Dye comes up.

It's like they're trying to find a way to make each successive loss more heart-breaking than the one before it. And succeeding.

If Jenks had it in him I would have left him in for 3. He looked very good in the 10th, only threw 24 pitches.

So Close...

QUOTE(Maverick0984 @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) so i just got back in like the 8th inning, besides the Count playing horribly, was there a reason? did he leave so early cause he was hurt? or did Ozzie actually pull a pitcher before the 5th inning on his own? He was just being hammered. Having Mackowiak in Center did not help at all, but he was being hit hard.

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QUOTE(G&T @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:42 PM) He's different when it's tied or it's a save situation. He goes through the motions otherwise it seems. He just seemed to have much better stuff in the 10th too. That Curve was no where close in the 9th, a few good ones appeared in the 10th.

24 pitches in 2 innings for Jenks, 16 in the 9th, 8 in the 10th. He looked stronger in the 10th than the 9th by a lot.

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:40 PM) We would have won 7-6 if not for him. I hate you, I hate your family, I hate everyone you've ever met. You will all suffer for this post...

QUOTE(fathom @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:39 PM) Hunter with some massive swings. Jenks doesn't have a good hook right now. There was a good one. Torii just managed to get a piece of it.

QUOTE(Greg Hibbard @ Aug 26, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) How are all these people still in this thread? Several of you just proclaimed the game and the season over not 10 minutes ago. I love being proven wrong.